Mainstream news site Jezebel published today a report claiming an anonymous performer had Child Protective Services falsely called on her last week, blaming the visit on the availability of her legal name on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia has reportedly abandoned efforts to implement a filter to remove explicit images from its site after board members could not agree on a feasible method to do so.
Wikipedia has some wicked roots. According to a report in Business Insider, the Internet’s free encyclopedia co-founder and front man Jimmy Wales partly funded the site with money from a softcore porn venture called the “Bomis Babe Report.”
The parent company of online encyclopedia Wikipedia is reportedly tossing thousands of explicit images from its websites as it plans on announcing a new policy regarding sexually explicit content.
The founder of the world’s most prolific reference website, Jimmy Wales, has announced plans to expand his Wikipedia empire with the launch of a search engine that is run not on algorithms but human input and intelligence.
Questions of its reliability and accuracy aside, few can deny the impact Wikipedia has had since its launch in 2001. The Internet’s “free encyclopedia” has been called a “research gem” and a “cultural phenomenon” by politicians and Ivy League scholars alike, was ranked one the Top 50 Most Visited Websites in the world by the Alexa metrics firm and hosts an estimated 874,673 articles in English alone.
